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LEAP SECOND STATUS FOR MLE PRODUCTS

Leap Second explanation and status on all MLE products.

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Table of contents
1 Whats Leap Second ................................................................................................................................ 3
2 Why this matters ..................................................................................................................................... 3
3 Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Products status summary ................................................................................... 3
4 Detailed Products status .......................................................................................................................... 4

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1 Whats Leap Second

A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in
order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time.
Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth's rotation drifts away from atomic time because of
irregularities in the Earth's rate of rotation. Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972, 25 such
leap seconds have been inserted. The most recent one happened on June 30, 2012 at 23:59:60 UTC. A leap
second will again be inserted at the end of June 30, 2015 at 23:59:60 UTC

2 Why this matters

Theres a known issue where the Linux kernel versions of the system between 2.2.26 to 3.3, could encounter
a deadlock condition in the kernel while processing the leap second. This is not considered a security issue and
rather considered a possible product bug.

3 Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Products status summary

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise engineering has verified the status of all products that deliver the Linux OS, and also
analyzed the past experience of the last occurrence.
The conclusion is that no product is affected by this deadlock issue and no action needs to be undertaken to
update products before the leap second occurs.

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4 Detailed Products status

Product
OT 2.x

Status
Not vulnerable

OT1.x

Not vulnerable

OXE (all versions)

No impact expected

Central License Server

OTES
OT-SBC
ICS6.7

Not vulnerable
Not vulnerable
Under verification
No impact expected

ACS

Not vulnerable

8770
OTFS 7.0
OTFC 7.5
OTCCSE
OTCS
Hardware Terminals

Not vulnerable
No impact expected
Not vulnerable
Not vulnerable
Not vulnerable
No impact expected

Comment
The Redhat leap second vulnerablity detector tool run on
OpenTouch current versions reports a suggestion The
installed tzdata package may need to be updated
before the Leap Second Insertion. This update is not
critical and is relevant for system not synchronized with
NTP, which will not take the leap second into account
until the tzdata is updated. Update for this package will
be delivered with planned MD versions of 2.0.2 and 2.1
due respectively at beginning and end of July
checked on latest maintenance version
The Redhat leap second vulnerablity detector tool run on
OpenTouch reports a suggestion The installed tzdata
package may need to be updated before the Leap
Second Insertion. This update is not critical and is
relevant for system not synchronized with NTP, which will
not take the leap second into account until the tzdata is
updated. No patch will be provided for this, as this version
is no longer supported.
No impact expected.
Deep analysis of past support activities have shown that
no issues have been reported at the last insertion of a
leap second in 2012
Same status as OpenTouch
Same status as OpenTouch
No longer supported. Possible updates of tzdata package
must be managed by the customer/BP
ACS 9.1 Not vulnerable
ACS8.5. No impact expected. Note: This version is no
longer supported.
Not based on Linux
Same status as OpenTouch
Not based on Linux
Not based on Linux

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